The sauger is found in quiet backwaters over sand, mud, or bedrock substrates, usually at tributary mouths and in deeper tailwaters over rock and rubble substrate downstream of dams. Young sauger eat zooplankton and insect larvae.

Where do you catch sauger?

Saugers are often plentiful in dirty rivers, or in deep, dark holes immediately below dams on large rivers like the Missouri or Mississippi. Where the water is clearer and shallower, not so much.

Where are sauger native?

Sauger are found primarily in the northern latitudes of North America, ranging from the central Canadian provinces south through the lower Mississippi River drainage, and from the St. Lawrence River west to the Continental Divide (Scott and Crossman, 1973). ...